Table 3.

Predictors of life satisfaction among older married adults: unstandardized coefficients from ordinary least squares regression models.

	Life as a whole (0–6)			Health (0–6)			Memory (0–6)
	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3
Respondent characteristics
Disability (Yes/no)	−0.16	−0.18	−0.17	−0.56**	−0.52**	−0.51**	−0.39**	−0.40**	−0.39**
Severity of impairments	−0.05**	−0.04**	−0.03**	−0.11**	−0.09**	−0.08**	−0.04**	−0.03*	−0.03**
Female		0.12	0.09		−0.07	−0.09		0.18	0.20
Age 60–69		0.03	−0.03		−0.20	−0.23		0.18	0.23
Age 70–79		0.29	0.21		−0.01	−0.05		0.33	0.41
Age 80+		0.23	0.15		0.03	−0.01		0.48	0.56*
Duration of limiting condition		0.00	0.00		−0.08**	−0.08**		−0.01	−0.01
Spouse characteristics
Age 60–69		0.01	0.01		0.12	0.10		−0.12	−0.12
Age 70–79		−0.08	−0.10		0.11	0.09		−0.20	−0.18
Age 80+		−0.11	−0.07		0.15	0.16		−0.12	−0.12
Disability (Yes/no)		−0.12	−0.11		0.00	−0.01		0.03	0.01
Couple characteristics
Income 1st quartile (lowest)		0.05	0.07		0.21	0.22		−0.09	−0.07
Income 2nd quartile		−0.09	−0.06		0.23	0.24		0.15	0.15
Income 3rd quartile		−0.06	−0.08		0.38**	0.36**		0.04	0.06
Wealth 1st quartile (lowest)		−0.17	−0.09		−0.28*	−0.25		−0.07	−0.11
Wealth 2nd quartile		−0.10	−0.07		−0.35*	−0.32*		−0.01	−0.01
Wealth 3rd quartile		−0.08	−0.09		−0.34**	−0.34**		−0.07	−0.06
Marital quality 1st quartile (lowest)		−0.79**	−0.77**		−0.02	−0.01		−0.22	−0.24
Marital quality 2nd quartile		−0.43**	−0.40**		−0.10	−0.09		−0.18	−0.20
Marital quality 3rd quartile		−0.09	−0.14		0.12	0.10		−0.17	−0.15
Activities
Shopping			−0.11			0.05			0.13
Working			−0.10			−0.05			0.16
Volunteering			0.21*			0.17			−0.13
Caring			0.07			−0.05			0.00
Socializing			0.00			0.05			0.02
Physical activity			0.33**			0.17			−0.11
Going out for pleasure			0.14			0.01			−0.12
Constant	5.28**	5.55**	5.29**	5.07**	5.19**	4.99**	5.08**	5.01**	4.97**
−2* loglikelihood	2252.3	2185.6	2161.5	2396.5	2346.5	2338.0	2285.8	2265.3	2259.8
Likelihood ratio testa (df) (n = 751)		66.7,(18)**	24.1,(7)**		50.0,(18)**	8.5,(7)		20.5,(18)	5.5,(7)

^*p < 0.05;

^**p < 0.01.

^aThe likelihood ratio test is a chi-square test for nested models.